U. PITTSBURGH (US) — In clinical trials, a first-of-its-kind vaccine successfully prompted the immune system to respond to early indications of colon cancer in people at high risk for the disease.“This prophylactic colon cancer vaccine boos…

The GLOBE at Night pro­gram, host­ed by the U.S. Nation­al Opti­cal Astron­o­my Obser­va­to­ry (NOAO), is an inter­na­tion­al citizen-science cam­paign to raise pub­lic aware­ness of the impact of light pol­lu­tion. The world­wide cam­paign invite…

Argenti­na’s Lionel Messi and U.S. nation­al team star Abby Wambach were named win­ners of FIFA’s 2012 male and female play­ers of the year awards Mon­day dur­ing world soc­cer’s annu­al gala in Zurich.

After polar explor­er Eric Larsen fin­ished on the “triple crown of adven­ture”—trav­el­ing to the South Pole, the North Pole, and the top of Mount Ever­est in one year—it was hard to imag­ine what he might do next. But he has a plan. In Decem­ber…

Given that the Java plugin for web browsers has fallen out of favor due to perpetual vulnerabilities, not to mention the lack of a Java interpreter at all on some devices, I translated Mark4, the Four Digit Number Game, into JavaScript. Let the games begin.

On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object so big come so close to our planet.

I created web apps (pages) for playing Mark4, the four digit number game, on devices with small screens: one where the machine scores the player’s guesses and another where the player scores the machine’s guesses.